The World’s Greatest Cathedrals
Gone Medieval
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The Stranger Arches
I think there's so much more to these buildings than we often think when we just go in and we're awed by the whole thing, but we sometimes miss some of those stories. I think it's fascinating how specialists like you can go into a building and hiccup lines in the stone or changes in style that denote someone else has taken over. So I think your book is great at picking out some of those things. You go to these buildings and look up and see exactly what you're talking about in the book. We tend to think particularly churches, let's just say that they were perfect, idyllic, utopian schemes of architecture, they're not at all.
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